Marques typographiques; ou, Recueil des monogrammes, chiffres, enseignes, emblèmes, devises, rébus et fleurons des libraires et imprimeurs qui ont excercé en France

by: Silvestre, L.-C. (Louis-Catherine), 1792-1867. n 84090027

Publication date: 1853

Topics: Printers' marks, French, Printers' marks, French

Publisher: Paris : P. Jannet, successeur de L.C. Silvestre : Impr. Renou et Maulde

Collection: wellcomelibrary; ukmhl; medicalheritagelibrary; europeanlibraries

Digitizing sponsor: Wellcome Library

Contributor: Wellcome Library

Language: French

Volume: Vol. 2

On cover: Paris, A. Labitte, 1868

Paged continuously

1,310 devices, with names of owners and dates of period when used

Issued in 9 parts, l853-65, anonymously, Silvestre's name appearing only on special t.-p. of each volume and on covers. The work was interrupted by his death in 1867 and the proposed descriptive, comparative and biographic indexes were never published; a short alphabetical index (21 p.) was however issued by the publishers as "livraison X" of the work